– We're checking all the expenses related to the functioning of the IPN. I think the study will appear in 2 or 3 months," said the president of the ultimate Audit Office in “Graffiti” Marian Banas.
Leading Marcin Fijolek cited the statements of law and justice politicians who are to claim that Control of the ultimate Chamber of Control at the Institute of National Memory is associated with start of Karol Nawrocki (IPN president) in the presidential election.
- Not at all. That's not true. We began a planned control, which was planned last year. There is no political context here. Our controllers are working as planned," Banas said.
He stressed that NIK "has planned this control and started much earlier". – We follow the rules that apply to us. We don't do politics. We're doing our job. This is my job, and I am keeping an eye on it," Banas noted.
"This is disturbing." Head of NIK on Lotus-Orlen merger
On Tuesday before noon, the ultimate Audit Board plans to print the results of the audit concerning Lotus and Orlen mergers. The chief of NIK Marian Banaś was besides asked about this substance in the “Graffiti”.
– It was. ad hoc control after a scheduled inspection in 2023 and ended in early 2024. There was a problem at the time, due to the fact that we were not allowed into Orlen, but we did a documentary check at the Ministry of State Acts," Banas said.
He stated that the papers gathered “were clear that the sale of assets from Lotus and partially from Orlen was below the marketplace value by almost PLN 5 billion‘. “This has now been confirmed in this ad hoc check,” added the NIK chief.
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– Few, these are the facts that Aramco (Saudi oil company – ed.), a abroad entity, the right to dispose of 50% of refinery products, meaning that The Treasury lost almost 20% of its impact for fuel products – Banaś revealed. He stressed that "it is about the fuel safety of our country".
– It's a disturbing thing, poses a hazard of fuel insecurity in our country, the chief of NIK indicated.
As he said, “you besides gotta say that PLN 250 million was paid private legal advisers for the opinions they have ordered, while Orlen has not utilized the services of the lawyer General at all’. “This is simply a body called upon to issue opinions on issues specified as real estate, serious multimillion-dollar contracts, and this is simply a multi-billion-dollar one,” Banaś pointed out.
He recalled that NIK had submitted its first audit notice to the prosecution About that. – Now it will only be a supplement, so we will not bring it to the D.A. for the second time. I think that we will shortly meet with the Minister of Justice to supplement these papers and extend them to the threads we examined in this audit," Banas announced.
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